Growing academic interest and the republication of B.S. Johnson's major works have been reinforced by Coe's award-winning biography Like A Fiery Elephant (2004). With a preface by Coe, this collection, co-edited by two leading Johnson scholars, offers an annotated bibliography, a chronology and readings of the author and his work.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Primary Texts Prefatory Essay: B.S. Johnson and Academia; J.Coe Introduction: Re-Reading B.S. Johnson; G.White & P.Tew Chronology: Concerning Bryan Stanley Johnson; P.Tew PART ONE: RE-READING THE NOVELS The (w)hole affect: creative reading and typographic immersion in Albert Angelo ; D.James Pentonville modernism: fate and resentment in Albert Angelo ; R.Bond The Unfortunates : Hypertext, linearity and the act of reading; K.Mitchell 'From embryo to embryan': See the Old Lady Decently - a problematic birth?; R.L.Harris 'The mind has fuses': Detonating B.S. Johnson; C.Watts PART TWO: RE-READING THE AUTHOR In the net: B.S. Johnson, the biography and Trawl ; R.Mengham Strange intercessions: contraventions of the muse in the writings of B.S. Johnson; G.Barrett Institutional negotiations: B.S. Johnson and the BBC (1959-73); V.Butler B.S. Johnson's 'Introduction' to Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? : the memoir between life and literature; J.McGeough 'An evacuee for ever': B.S. Johnson versus ego psychology; N.Hubble PART THREE: RE-READING: NEW PERSPECTIVES Exemplary B.S: B.S. Johnson and the Toronto Research Group; B.Buchanan B.S.Johnson's Albert Angelo and the consequences of London; L.Phillips 'He would be working at the Welsh books': B.S. Johnson and the two literatures of Wales; N.Jones Otherness, post-coloniality and pedagogy in B.S. Johnson's Albert Angelo (1964) and See the Old Lady Decently (1975); P.Tew Annotated Bibliography of Johnson Studies Index
